One vacuum into which the police have frequently been drawn is the area of urgent transfers between NHS hospitals.  Transfers from a mental health unit to Accident & Emergency or another mental health unit.  There are pitfalls to be anticipated in these kinds of requests and a legal framework in the background of incidents that […]

This blog has now been running for over two years and this post should be celebrating that fact and having moved past half a million blog hits.  (I just laughed out loud (again) writing “half a million blog hits” – a policeman banging on about out-dated laws and NHS guidelines.) I started this blog because […]

NB: If you are after quick information about legal powers for cross-border absconding between UK countries, there is now a Quick Guide to Cross Border Returns available on this, with legal references. The United Kingdom for policing / legal purposes, operates in several separate legislative theatres:  a) England / Wales; b) Scotland; and c) Northern […]